Identifying and Explaining effective factors on Clinical Education of Medical Students in Virtual Education: Corona Pandemic

Corona virus has disrupted medical education in the world. Most medical schools try to use e- learning to maintain the standard learning of medical students in teaching hospitals. The aim of this study was to identify and explain the factors affecting the clinical education of medical students in distance education in coronary conditions.

This qualitative study was performed by content analysis method. Sample research was articles on virtual education, medical education and clinical education in Corona pandemics. 23 articles were selected for the final review. Open coding of articles was performed using MAXQDA10 software. In the next step, the codes were grouped based on conceptual and semantic similarity, and each category was named with the titles that indicated its characteristics. In order to check the validity of the research, the text of the articles was given to two medical education specialists to be coded.

The results of data analysis in the process led to the identification of 73 open codes, which finally by categorizing and analyzing the codes, 3 main categories and 7 central categories, including increasing the clinical competence of medical students in corona pandemic (reducing harm to patients using virtual education Improving the quality and quantity of learning using e- learning, increasing students' communication skills in virtual clinical education), Improving the quality of clinical education using the virtual education approach (creating and maintaining standard learning, creating a suitable platform for virtual clinical education), developing clinical education using e-learning (reducing time and space constraints in clinical education using cyberspace, creating a simulation environment for clinical education) was formed.

Decreasing the quality and quantity of medical education in medical universities over time has a negative effect on the treatment of patients and their health. Due to the corona pandemic and the reduction of medical education in teaching hospitals, e- learning as a new approach in learning can be used to improve the quality of clinical education.